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WESH 2 spoke to the man who could help Orlando to make sure the money is properly allocated.

"What I do is not rocket science," attorney Ken Feinberg said.

Feinberg is a number cruncher.

“The very first step you have to decide is the amount of money available, total, and then you allocate among eligible claimants,” Feinberg said.

When heartbreak strikes and donations are made, Feinberg helps decide how much money people get.

"Now in Boston, most of the money went to the dead or those who were quadriplegics, who had suffered double amputation. And then we earmarked funds for the physically injured based on how long they were hospitalized or whether they received out-patient treatment,” Feinberg said.

He has been in charge, or has been part of, money distribution for victims of 9/11, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Sandy Hook school shooing, the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, and the BP oil spill.

“No decisions will be made until we hear from the victims themselves in town hall meetings in Orlando in a few weeks,” Feinberg said.

He said decisions are based on math and not emotions, and for that he has come under fire.

“It is heart-wrenching when you look at individuals and recognize that no matter how much money you provide, it is small solace for what they have been through,” he said.

Feinberg said, at this point, the people who are eligible include families of victims who died, victims who were injured and possibly survivors with no physical injuries, but who are suffering emotionally.

He said money for lost wages is a stretch because it dilutes the fund.